By Vinnie Mirchandani on September 20, 2010
The painfully long NDAs Oracle has had industry analysts under expired yesterday. Last evening was supposed to be the finally here (after “half way” was celebrated in 2006) coming out for Fusion applications.
Instead, Larry Ellison sounded tentative. Go ahead and deploy Fusion if you are “brave” and “God bless you if you do so”
It should be one of Fusion’s main selling points – that you can deploy in private or public cloud flavors. Instead there was a rambling part professor, part sniper at competitor, part cloud in a Exalogic box talk. The message got diluted in the “You can define the cloud however you want” tone. No wonder Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com tweeted…
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